Description
This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere.
The book examines the ideological, policy, electoral and organisational dilemmas facing the centre-left. Taking in cases including those from the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand, it outlines and explores the current and future trajectories of the family of centre-left parties.
This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and interested readers of labour and social democratic politics, centre-left political parties, trade unions, the future of the centre-left, and more broadly to those studying political parties, European and comparative politics.
Table of Contents
1. The Meaning of Social Democracy
2. The Ideology of Social Democracy
3. Ideological Dilemmas
4. Social Democracy and Policy Change
5. Dilemmas of Political Economy
6. Dilemmas of Welfare and Social Policy
7. Dilemmas of Immigration
8. Electoral Dilemmas
9. Dilemmas in Office
10. Organisational Dilemmas
11. The Next Wave of Social Democracy?
